Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.

We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.

I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.

Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

Everybody in American seems in a rush to catch a train.